1938

Secretary, 2945 Fairmount Cleveland 18, Ohio

Class Agent, 88 Grovers Ave., Bridgeport 5, Conn

Ben Ames Williams is living at 98 Rockwood Street in Jamaica Plain, Mass., and commutes to Bean Town where he is Vice President of the First National Bank of Boston. He commuted in Hanover via bike, you may remember, and was one of those lucky guys who seemed to have gotten value from the out-of-doors-experience up Hanover way. It's still in his heart too for he says he has been to Europe and out West "but if you can't find it in New England, it's not worth seeing." Ben and Jessie have three lassies: Jay, a student at RadclifEe, and two younger gals, Toby and Susan. Dad Williams is holding up pretty fine. Hunting, skiing and picture-framing are his hobbies, and he offers to have a dual meet with any classmate in the Harvard-Dartmouth slalom at Tuckerman's Ravine in the spring. He sums up his gripes this way: "The fact that the New Hampshire deer season interferes with the best partridge hunting; the way people shoot ducks after dark; the fact that they keep changing skiing techniques, and the regrettable circumstances of not having learned how to earn a living without having to spend too much time at it." (Secretary.... Nice note, Ben. Keep in touch.)

Just a tiny note from Frederick LeComte in Washington, D.C., indicates he too is doing all right. He's an attorney and says he has no hobbies and no gripes. I think I know why. He's single and he lives in Italy part of each year.

George Nichols can be reached at 124 Reed Avenue in Pelham, N.Y., where he is a manufacturers' representative. Although we do not have their names, there are three young lads bearing the Nichols moniker and the gang spends quite a bit of time up at the Cape.

A wonderful guy ... always has been Pete Barnet, the Albany, N.Y., textile manufacturer and Treasurer of Wm. Barnet and Son, Inc. Pete is pretty deep in civic and social affairs in the Empire State's ruling city. He and Eleanor, Skidmore '41, have a couple of fine sons, Hank and Tom. Business takes him back to Hanover often, he reports. And there is nothing quite like spending each New Year's Eve at the Hanover Inn with friends, Henry "Pete" Barnet concludes. You can reach Pete at 19 Pinetree Lane in Albany.

Blair Morrissey is carrying the resident manager's job for the U. S. Steel Export Co. in Montreal while Betty and the kids are back in Windsor, Ont., waiting for school to finish before they join the old man. Blair has been keeping the joints limber with skiing in the Laurentians. That's better than keeping them limber with Ballantine's.

Walter Easy-Does-It Averill always could get big things done and appear as though he were operating at a slow lope. Guess it's luckily natural to him and he has brains to carry it out. The tall one is still squiring affairs at Nelson House in Poughkeepsie, and a electric power man from down there today told me that Walt is doing a swell job in the community, too. Walt's been getting around some too, he reports... such places as the Caribbean, Chicago, Hanover and Wappinger Falls.

Soon as I opened my big political mouth I knew that somebody would put their foot into it. Now, in effect, Robb Kelley is asking for equal time. He says: "The colleges are still stuffed with too many Democrats. We even find them in the National Council of Churches. Being a Presbyterian and a Republican I find that the National Council of Churches is out of line making political pronouncements." Robb is Top Brass of Employers Mutual Casualty Company, Des Moines.

Pete Merritt is a blueprinter at 176 Pearl Street in Hartford, Conn. He and Mary have four blueprints: Polly, 19; Michael, 17; Susan, 14, and Tucker, 13. Pete writes that his hobby is "wishing"; that he has achieved "damn little recognition," that his travels are "in circles," and that he hasn't a gripe in the world.